National Council on Aging Article: Offering Age-Friendly Care by Starting with What Matters Most
The National Council on Aging (NCOA) has published an article, "Offering Age-Friendly Care by Starting with What Matters Most."
Authored by Crystal Gwizdala, Associate Communications Officer at Yale School of Medicine, the article notes that age-friendly care is based on the 4Ms framework: what Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility. What Matters is the core of age-friendly care, anchoring the other Ms.
The article discusses the benefits of age-friendly care and points to tools from Patient Priorities Care, which offers age-friendly resources for health professionals to identify what matters most to each older adult and how to align care to their priorities.
Older adults and their care partners can use My Health Priorities to help identify and share what matters most to them with their families and health care teams, along with the My Health Checklist to discuss the 4Ms.
Read the article.
Learn more about NCOA.
Learn more about the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative and Patient Priorities Care.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of the Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative and Patient Priorities Care.
